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biggest thing i wish was present in more discussions about models is people providing more specifics on their setups vs. vague descriptions of harnesses

more future proof except for the fact that these guys are infamous for breaking changes i really don't think after there's much interest from the larger community after multiple an…

have always wondered about this especially post Cambridge Analytica where Meta imposed really stringent requirements for API use even for personal things while it was blatantly obv…

they are essentially Lyft in early Uber vs. Lyft days. They are marketing themselves vaguely as being "better" because they're "more ethical" but their actions make it clear that t…

you can use claude code with these other providers

so we're trusting the guy who created tech to make it easier for bots to exist on the internet to then sell us the solution to fix the problem he made worse?

do we know whether Microsoft could have been selling secondary shares as part of various funding rounds? my impression is that many of these "investments" are structured IOUs for c…

when i realized that sama isn't that much of an ai researcher, it became clearer that this is more akin to a group delusion for hype purposes than a real possibility

open source projects are usually creating something for themselves so it's much easier to know what to build when you are the user whereas, commercial software has a disconnect bet…

that ship has sailed along time ago

Engineers say they want to work on hard problems then complain that they can’t solve something because it’s too complex

working class people are predominantly using public transit to get around nyc this claim has been debunked many times and anyone with eyes can see who the private drivers in NYC ar…

the problem with ETH at its peak is that the gas fees made cost of doing anything real too costly if there was a real use case it would have manifested itself at this point i think…

With all due respect, engineers in finance can’t allow for outages like this because then you are losing massive amounts of money and potentially going out of business.

there are high trust societies where you still cannot take people at their word because it might not be a culture of being direct to others. thinking of japan which is high social …

i cannot imagine how they are going to be able to meet their obligations unless they pull off a massive hail mary at this point via a bail out or finding someone to provide tens of…

i agree - it shows a remarkable lack of creativity that we're still stuck with a fairly subpar UX for interacting with these tools

open ai is at risk of complete collapse if it cannot fulfill its financial obligations. if people willing to give them money don't have faith in their ability to win the AI race an…

can't comment on west coast but from perspective in NYC, i think the market for SWEs willing to work in office here is very good. might be different since there's lots of different…

For awhile now I’ve felt like YC has turned into another badge for the type people who are obsessed with prestige. It’s all about checking a box and not about the substance of what…

There is a balance between getting to market as fast as possible and avoiding an architecture that will immediately make it hard to iterate after MVP. The problem is that a lot of …

philosophy is probably a bad example to use because i think it's actually one of the "liberal arts" majors that's actually very applicable to skills you need in the corporate world…

This is crazy. I have worked at some large orgs and never experienced that level of bureaucracy to deploy to test/qa environments. I’ve seen in sensitive apps needing an approval t…

BigInt shipped because financial organizations needed it for certain applications.

Yeah I definitely agree that they’re doing some great engineering work in the company. It’s a strange place because it’s fully owned by Mike Bloomberg without any board or other gr…